In spite of the cold snap in May the trees in the orchard do have some apples:
Not as many down there as in good years, but still quite a few.
The two trees in the greenhouse area are another story. The trees there came out earlier and were harder hit by the cold. The two trees have one apple each:
The cherry tree in the orchard is doing fine.
So Andy put a net over it to increase our chance of harvesting the fruit. The critters like cherries as much as we do.
July 22, 2019
one apple each per little tree! that sounds very valiant to me!
They remind me of our little shed the winter after the fire — up there all alone.
That’s too bad. Mom thinks the farms that usually have local corn sales for us must have been hit by all the rain. Corn has been late coming and the supply is very limited. We hope you pick a lot of cherries – cherry pie sounds wonderful!!!
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The apple trees are doing a lot better than we expected, so we’re happy. I know about all the flooding and the problems for the farmers. That’s really sad.
Not sure how the fruit is doing in my neck of woods.
Coffee is on
I’m guessing it’s doing better than our fruit trees — it’s always a harsh life for them up on the land.
nice crop – hope you get more than the “critters”
The cherries should be okay with the net over them, and Andy is thinking of putting a net over one of the apple trees. He wants to see how early they ripen, so he wants at least one or two to escape the critters.
Hooray for apples and cherries. I remember my dad’s dwarf fruit trees in his back yard. He always had to cover them with netting to keep the birds from taking all the fruit
Andy is thinking of putting a net over only one of the apple trees because it takes time and he has so many other things to do. Nets are great things.
The cherry tree looks awesome!
I had one a couple of years ago but a deer chewed it up.
And your apples look good too.
Mine look smaller this year and have brown little spots on them.
Blah.
The chain link fence keeps out the deer and bears. Trees up there need a lot of protection.